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Last week, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, in addition to some new features, the biggest difference between WP8 and iOS, Android is that it has a start screen consisting of abundant live tiles. Senior product manager of Microsoft Josh Phillips published an article on Microsoft official blog. He talks about the story behind start screen of Windows Phone 8.
"How can we make Start even more personal" is the question Phillips and his team is always thinking about. Windows Phone makes the static ...

"Class box" is an app which helps students create course plan developed by 4 Chinese. This app was created in 2012. They get over 1 million users with only 4 people. How do they make this?
The co-founder of "Class box" Tianfang Li explains this on Zhihu. Here is what he said:
About millions of users, in the mobile Internet era what we need to do is just find a good entry point, rapid iteration and with a little luck, a small team or even an independent developer can make millions user level prod...

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I see questions and comments all the time with the general sentiment “it looks nice, but who really uses PhoneGap/Apache Co...

Over the past year or so, I noticed that my Twitter usage started dropping off. I felt less compelled to check it regularly, usually didn't bother reading it on my morning walk and found myself "keeping up" with the stream less and less as time progressed.I figured this was a fairly natural decline - perhaps the novelty had worn off, people had gotten repetitive, the signal-to-noise ratio had gotten worse or I'd just simply ended up following too many uninteresting people out of politeness. I no...

TL;DR
The Mozilla Platform keeps improving:
JavaScript native file management is an undergoing work to provide a
high-performance JavaScript-friendly API to manipulate the file system.
The Mozilla Platform, JavaScript and Files
The Mozilla Platform is the application development framework behind Firefox, Thunderbird, Instantbird, Camino, Songbird and a number of other applications.
While the performance-critical components
of the Mozilla Platform are developed in C/C++, an increasing number o...

Random number generation is one of most basic features in any
programming language. The basic utilization is always the same: generate
a random number between 0 and 1. With such a simple resource at hand we
sometimes overlook some interesting features.
What do we learn from the books?
The most obvious and maybe intuitive way to generate random numbers in Java is simply calling:
java.lang.Math.random()
Random generation is in the Math
utility class with abs, pow, floor...

According to The Verge, Skype finally wins its position in Windows 8.1 after acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft will drop the existing communications applications on existing Windows and replace it with Skype. Skype and Windows 8.1 will be more closely associated and this is what Microsoft expects.
On Windows 8.1, users can still use Skype for voice or video calls even it's in lock screen mode.In February, Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger users would be forced to upgrade to Skype, ...

Last week we talked about giving away your passwords and how you should never do
it. When a website wants to use the services of another—such as Bitly
posting to your Twitter stream—instead of asking you to share your
password, they should use OAuth instead.
OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows you to approve one application interacting with another on your behalf without giving away your password.
This is a quick guide to illustrate, as simply as possible, how OAu...

Two and a half years ago, I released the first version of getElementsByClassName. With how web browsers has evolved since, I thought I’d release a real ultimate version, dated 2008. Native Web Browser SupportSafari 3.1 has native getElmentsByClassName support, and upcoming Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 will have it too. It only leaves out, you’ve guessed it, Internet Explorer.The Necessity Of This ScriptLiving in a world where Microsoft is halting every possible way the web cou...

The result of the lawsuit case war between Oracle and Google is clearer now. The court said that 9 lines of code of Android has violated intellectual property right, these 9 lines of code can be ignored relative to the number of codes for the whole Android system. But just like LinuxToy points out that the reasons why this case catches so much attention are : 1). The amount of money Oracle asked from Google is $1 billion; 2). The statement says Java language itself doesn't violate the int...